You'll never feel the wind in your hair
[you] will never hear the sound of walking through the snow you won't hear the birds whistle outside
If you care a lot about these kinds of things, and you really shouldn't apply for a mission to mars. I'm
Bas Lansdorp and
Co-founder and CEO of Mars One and we're organizing a manned mission to mars in the year 2023
Our requirements are very different from those of the of the normal astronauts
[space Shuttle Atlantis]
because they are going back home. And these people are going to stay there the rest of their lives
So it's a one-way ticket. Yes.
I'm a boss
I think when people hear about our project at first they're skeptical because ESA and NASA and the other space agencies
Are talking about doing this in decades and now there's a private organization that says they can do it in ten years
I think if people look at our website, then I think that people are quickly convinced
Mars One has designed a mission that is much simpler than previous designs for Mars missions
before the humans even leave from Earth there's water and
breathable air waiting for them
In 2022 the first group of four people will leave lending in 2023 and every two years after that we'll send an additional crew there
Our astronauts will be selected to cohabitate for the rest of their lives
They'll train for seven years everything on how to repair anything that breaks to take care of medical situations
They will know how to grow their own food
It's very likely impossible for them to ever return to Earth because we don't have the technology to go back
Already people are uploading their application movies to our website
It's really fun to see people explaining
Why they want to leave everything they have here on Earth and start a new life on Mars
I can be patient and listen to others. Why would you leave your family, your friends?
Some people also call it like social suicide
it's not because I dislike being here on Earth, but it's
Going to another planet and working for a new society on Mars
I like to travel around the world and see different things. went two years later to Sierra Leone
And maybe the Mars is the next step, you know. I've chosen this this both
My father said "well, I understand it" and my mother said
She was a bit a bit angry that I've sent that email
I think you only live once on this planet, I wanna choose for a very life-changing experience
the total cost of the of getting the first four people on mars will be about six billion US dollars and
This is how we will finance it. We will have the world watch
how
Humans fly to mars, how they land on mars, what life on mars will be like. We want the world to elect the end
Voice of mankind to the next planet. The final vote will be given to the audience. Six billion dollars is a lot of money
But imagine what will happen
when humans land on Mars
everybody will be glued to their TV screens or to their tablet screens and
Will watch it happen. When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon
Everybody watched and imagine doing the same in this media era
Where everybody has a screen in their pocket?
I think that reality TV from Mars will be completely different and reality TV from Earth because
reality TV from mars is inherently interesting at telling this this story. This the biggest adventure of mankind
To the world that will be our way of financing it
For me it would really change the world
To imagine that we are sitting here and at the same time there's people on Mars
That's really something that would mean a step in the evolution of our species
[upon a small step for man]
the US, landing people on the Moon, gave that sense of
Achieving a common goal together. If you can put humans on Mars
It will give everyone in the world the feeling that you can do anything
That's maybe the most valuable thing that this mission to Mars will bring to the world